Friday, September 30, 2011

We missed it, but we're celebrating today. We had our highest level of sales in the 5 years we've been open yesterday. Okay, it's not much in terms of making a living, but we are excited that we meet the needs of students, staff, and faculty this way.

And here at the end of Banned Books Week:

In honor of Banned Books Week, Google Maps has a map of the country pinpointing and describing challenges to books as documented by the American Library Association and the Kids' Right to Read Project.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

"Where is the Love" library instruction designed by Judy Bastin gets Karla Fisher approval: "You're teaching just like our Faculty Development Day speaker wants us to!"

Contracts signed to digitize the college yearbooks from 1927 - 1995, and supplementary material such as the Grizzly Magazine and the Scan since. Thank you for pulling this together, Martha Gregg. It is funded by a donor who wished to honor his family: "Made Possible by the James R. Boyd Family".

And I'm happy to announce a CULS recognition (CULS Legislative Leadership Award) will go to me next month. It's always special to be recognized by your peers. I hope it inspires me to new efforts on behalf of Kansas academic libraries.

Monday, September 26, 2011

I hope everyone has seen the news about Butler's new dorms. But there won't be married student housing in them when they open next fall. Today I saw this announcement and following press release from Friday, Sept. 23:

From El Dorado Main Street

I am very happy to announce that El Dorado has been awarded the HOPE VI Main Street grant that we have been working on for over two years. Thanks to the partnership between the City of El Dorado,building owners and El Dorado Main Street; this grant will help revitalize two building which are in desperate need and located in the downtown. --Director Lindsey Baines

KANSAS CITY, KS - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the city of El Dorado a $500,000 grant today that will allow the city and its local partners to include affordable housing as it revitalizes its historic central business district or "Main Street."

The grant is provided through HUD's HOPE VI Main Street Program that gives financial support to small towns to ensure they have the resources to include affordable housing in their ongoing effort to revitalize older, downtown business districts.

El Dorado will use the funding to transform Ellet's Opera House and the Gish Building into affordable housing. Two developers - Gish Apartments, LLC and W&M Enterprises, LLC - formed WMS Partnership. The new entity will join the city and PKHLS Architects to oversee and design the construction of the new housing.
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The project will create 12-upper-story, affordable one and two-bedroom housing units. Ten of the units will be reserved for low- to moderate-income residents. The remaining two units, one in each building, will be reserved for very low-income residents.

Friday, September 16, 2011

SAT reading scores for graduating high school seniors this year reached the lowest point in nearly four decades, reflecting a steady decline in performance in that subject on the college admissions test, the College Board reported Wednesday...

...Nationally, the reading score for the Class of 2011, including public- and private-school students, was 497, down three points from the previous year and 33 points from 1972, the earliest year for which comparisons are possible.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Tip: Get to these from the Pipeline library tab, selecting ProQuest. Select advanced search option > Health & Medicine (in the subject area) > audio visual to get directly to the titles.

ProQuest Nursing videos gives faculty and students 24-7 access to Medcom's library of training programs in streaming video. Already widely used in nursing courses and hospitals, Medcom videos have won more than 50 major awards for excellence, including the prestigious Emmy award. Nursing videos cover the fundamentals of nurse training as well as advanced topics.

Subject areas and sample titles include:

*Anatomy and Physiology: The Nervous System; The Muscular System; The Reproductive System

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

On Friday, September 23rd Butler will be once again hosting a national collegiate judging event here in El Dorado at the Butler County Fairgrounds. We are expecting nearly 700 contestants, faculty and industry leaders from approximately 40 different colleges and universities.

This year our youth division is growing even larger with 4-H and FFA winners from more than 15 different states coming to participate. We are in need of help for numerous jobs both livestock and non-livestock related. No livestock handling expertise is required!

If you have any time to spare that day and would like to help, please contact Chris Mullinix at cmullinix@butlercc.edu or (316) 323-0395.